Explaining Saturn's Hexagonal Polar Vortex | Space is Weird
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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)
Published: Wed Feb 13 2019
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There is a weird hexagon-shaped storm at Saturn's north pole. Discovered back in 1981 in Voyager images, it's been raging ever since then, but only recently have we been able to explain its shape and recreate the same process in a lab!.